Taapsee and Bhumi to play world's oldest sharpshooters in Anurag's Saand Ki Aankh

Mirror Online | Feb 9, 2019, 04.51 PM IST

Anurag Kashyap Picture by Vishnu Jaiswal

Bollywood actors Taapsee Pannu and Bhumi Pednekar would be seen in Anurag Kashyap’s new production called
Saand ki Aankh. The leading ladies are playing the world's oldest sharpshooters, Chandro Tomar, aged 87 and her sister-in-law, Prakashi Tomar, aged 82

After much reasoning and disputes which included Nandy asking Kashyap to pay an extortion sum of one crore, the team has come with the quirky title
Saand Ki Aankh which is the literal translation of the English term, bulls eye. Earlier, the movie was titled as Womaniya, a term coined by Anurag Kashyap for his other work,
Gangs Of Wasseypur, however the rights of the same term are registered with PNC (Pritish Nandy Communications).

According to a
Mirror report, Anurag had coined the term Womaniya (there is a song by the name in his directorial
Gangs of Wasseypur) and holds the Intellectual Property Rights to it, while Nandy had registered it as a film title a while ago.

In the Mirror report Anurag was quoted saying, that PNC wanted to use the title for a web series and didn’t end up doing so. 'That series is out out with another title but they are just sitting on it because they know we want it for a film.'

'I don’t even know if it’s legal to do this. It’s like encroaching on someone’s property, then asking for an obscene amount of money to get off it. We have been politely requesting Nandy for the title for a very long time and have even consulted lawyers on the matter. We’ve been told that no one can hoard a title. But to get a censor certificate, the producers’ association has to register the title which makes the law contradictory. It’s strange that I have to fight for a word that we coined and brought into usage', he said.

What attracted attention along with the title was the way the team announced the same.
Tagging each other in their tweets and talking about the film, Bhumi and Tapsee’s asking each other about the title and then finally revealed it along with Anurag’s tweet which said that they will not pay any extortion fee to Pritish Nandy as the entire team agrees on the now official title of
Saandh Ki Aankh.

The shoot of the movie starts tomorrow, February 10. The Reliance Entertainment film will mark writer Tushar Hiranandani's debut as director. It will be jointly-produced by Anurag Kashyap and Nidhi Parma.